[BIGLOOK]

Having been a linguistics student at the post grad levels, the most enlightening thing I learned was that 'Linguistics is the most unscientific of the sciences and the most inhuman of the humanities'. I'll add a corollary; it's also the most political.

Languages developed and changed from trade, migrations and war. Having been around a bit, there are different dialects in lesser developed countries about a two hour bus ride apart. In ancient days that was most likely a two hour trek apart.

We'll be counting the theories as archaeologists uncover something new (which really isn't) and linguists are brought in to divine some meaning and there'll be as many theories as all the days. That ought to give our successors a lot to dicuss in the future.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BIGLOOK, and well said.

Here’s one from the FRchives that has many of those cool language tree diagrams and whatnot:

Unearthed Aryan cities rewrite history
The Australian | 04 Oct 2010 | The Sunday Times
Posted on 10/04/2010 12:15:28 AM PDT by Palter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2601056/posts